The upper limits of vegetation on Mauna Loa, Hawaii: A 50th-anniversary reassessment

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 518-525

  Juvik, James O ^a   Rodomsky, Brett T ^a   Price, Jonathan P ^a   Hansen, Eric W ^a   Kueffer, Christoph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Altitudinal range expansion; Climate change; Hawaii; Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea; Native and alien alpine plants; Species invasion

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; PREHISTORIC; PRIMARY SUCCESSION; RAINFALL; RANGE EXPANSION; SUBSTRATE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANT; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ALTITUDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HAWAII; PLANTS; TIME FACTORS;

HAWAII [(ISL) HAWAIIAN ISLANDS]; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; MAUNA LOA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955529902     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0341.1     Document Type: Article

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